Share Pics of your Villages.

[William Bonney]

I like seeing how others players shape their game worlds in these games that allow building. It helps give me ideas for how I should be doing things, as I'm a function over fashion type and rarely think about town/city beautification. So please, post your screens. Here's mine so far in Spring of my 7th year up near the northern cave between the towns of Branica and Baranica:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2540209901

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2540209934

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2540212128

[Sairi (Jen)]

Have you ever seen Goldi's amoeba village?

https://youtu.be/0M3hlB9FjYM

[William Bonney]

Can't say I'm much of a YouTube type person. I don't watch others play their video games so much, whether it be streaming videos or recorded. I spend enough time playing my own, heh. Is kinda something I don't like, adding content, especially since it's mostly of a positive nature, to other sites all the time and only seeing criticisms, suggestions, and negative stuff on these types of forums. I also don't use Discord much. Mostly due to privacy.

But I'll check out the video since ya suggested it 8-)

[Milinia]

Oh I like seeing pictures too! I was actually thinking of making a save swap thread so we can walk around each other's villages.

I can't give you an overview screenshot of my set up because there is no mountain or hill in sight of my village. I can only give you an impression of my 18 year old village south-west of Branica. I'm someone who likes to make pretty villages so for me it's beauty over function. having said that, every single one of my villagers is very happy, well watered and fed and I'm rolling around in cash.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2536079560

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2496505037

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2529574308

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2540243503

*edit to add* I was sort of inspired by the planning sketches in this article which is an interesting read. https://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-city-builder-video-games-are-historically-inaccurate

[Sairi (Jen)]

Well Goldi is also a mod here and the video is simply showing 4 of her building spots. Nothing negative.
She loves this game as much as I do and invested a lot of time and effort helping players and devs.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Sairi (Jen):

Well Goldi is also a mod here and the video is simply showing 4 of her building spots. Nothing negative.
She loves this game as much as I do and invested a lot of time and effort helping players and devs.

What does that have to do with anything?

Originally posted by William Bonney:

But I'll check out the video since ya suggested it 8-)

The OP already agreed to watch the Youtube vid you plugged, so what else are you trying to sell? ;p

[William Bonney]

Originally posted by Sairi (Jen):

Well Goldi is also a mod here and the video is simply showing 4 of her building spots. Nothing negative.
She loves this game as much as I do and invested a lot of time and effort helping players and devs.

Kinda my point though. Adding content of a positive nature to YouTube, and not to the forums/communication of the game. Is a type of free advertising that tends to promote and drive YouTube more (which there's nothing wrong with) than the actual games. You come on these type of forums, you only see a lot of complaints and negatives and all the "good" stuff is on a YouTube video. Um, yeah.....

[William Bonney]

From the Goldi video, I'm kinda thinking of what not to do by it, heh. Round like that seems kind of cluttered and not easy to navigate to me. I like all the crafting in a single area, and then all the housing around it, but I think I might do it a bit different end game for me.

I'm kinda formulating a split community type deal. Housing all my crafters with other crafters, farmers with farmers, and then a mix of escavaters, loggers, and miners. Then having hunters with other hunters or fishers. This way they are more specialized, and their children will come out with better stats when they are born.

Also thinking during my next town expansion thing, splitting the community. A mining area by the cave between those Ba/Bra towns, and then all the farmers and barns to the south of there on the other side of the hill nearer the water, so I can also set up for Fishing.

Will be interesting, and with shared storage of the food/resource sheds, think I can manage. Will see, heh.

Your pictures are great Millenia, but is there no way to get a distant panoramic shot? Might take clearing some trees so they aren't in the way of a picture, but heh. With saves, doable.

[Sairi (Jen)]

Originally posted by William Bonney:

From the Goldi video, I'm kinda thinking of what not to do by it, heh. Round like that seems kind of cluttered and not easy to navigate to me. I like all the crafting in a single area, and then all the housing around it, but I think I might do it a bit different end game for me.

Was kind of the idea, Goldi showed multiple towns here and you can take it as inspiration or as something that doesn't suit you.

Originally posted by William Bonney:

Also thinking during my next town expansion thing, splitting the community. A mining area by the cave between those Ba/Bra towns, and then all the farmers and barns to the south of there on the other side of the hill nearer the water, so I can also set up for Fishing.

I omce split up all my buildings into 4 mini villages, that were all over the map. Pretty fun.

My longest save is at the are where Goldi has her amoeba village I think. It has flat area at both sides of the stream, one half I used for farming. At the other half I created the village with houses in a wide circle and in the middle of that village where my farm animals.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2540340290

[Sairi (Jen)]

Originally posted by William Bonney:

Originally posted by Sairi (Jen):

Well Goldi is also a mod here and the video is simply showing 4 of her building spots. Nothing negative.
She loves this game as much as I do and invested a lot of time and effort helping players and devs.

Kinda my point though. Adding content of a positive nature to YouTube, and not to the forums/communication of the game. Is a type of free advertising that tends to promote and drive YouTube more (which there's nothing wrong with) than the actual games. You come on these type of forums, you only see a lot of complaints and negatives and all the "good" stuff is on a YouTube video. Um, yeah.....

Sometimes it's easier to explain through video, because a video can show what's meant.
Been a mod myself for a long time(well maybe not that long, Nov last year in discord, but it feels long xD)and language can be a real barrier for what you're trying to explain(I'm not a native English speaker)
Goldi made tutorials for this reason. Not for promotion, but to explain stuff, to show how it's done.

[William Bonney]

Is kinda funny for me being 120 hours into the game now (am a no lifer with physical issues that enjoys gaming a lot more than TV). But knowing everything I'm doing now is temporary. I'll sort stuff and make it look nice later once I get all my skills and unlock on my buildings. For now, function trumps fashion. At some point I'll take a season or two off from mining/farming and spend time on another move and refurbish my mining area also. Will be a while yet, heh. Just unlocked the Stable, so bought a mule to help sell off my summer harvest. The horse(s) I'll get in the Winter, heh.

[ĐrαGoɳS' uK]

Just to add my thoughts here if i may .... Much inspiration can be taken from other players beautiful screenshots i see here on the forums. I'm always interested in seeing other peoples 'designs' and 'looks'. I've also many hours in the game ... 62 villagers and 40+ buildings, but also just started another game from scratch. And how do you take an SS of your village like that ?

[Goldi:AI]

I guess I got beaten to showing off mine. xD Not that I mind. I like the circle village for being different, but for living in I prefer my oldest home in the mountains, spread out just where I found space.

I love the idea of this threat. As mods and bug hunters we get to see many amazing player villages. It always surprises me to see what people can come up with. Despite the still limited amount of placable items and the complete buildings almost none look the same.

My most recent one is this. West of Hornica, just before the lake there: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2518692418
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2540490773
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2540490888

[William Bonney]

Originally posted by DɾαGoɳ$ uK:

Just to add my thoughts here if i may .... Much inspiration can be taken from other players beautiful screenshots i see here on the forums. I'm always interested in seeing other peoples 'designs' and 'looks'. I've also many hours in the game ... 62 villagers and 40+ buildings, but also just started another game from scratch. And how do you take an SS of your village like that ?

Well, it gives you a comparison for the before and after pictures 8-). How it started, what it was in the middle, and finally what it became as a finished setting. That's as much for you as it is for anyone else, but I still enjoy seeing 'em.

As for GoldiRie, I agree with your sentiments. I like those pictures a lot more. A bit more spread and not all bulked up so you can move around. Looks great in my opinion.

[Bahamas]

Originally posted by AliveSince1961:

Milinia make very nice villages but to me nothing beat Rose details. I'm always amazed how much she can do with so little available decorative items.

I have seen Goldie villages but I cannot find any picture or video of Rose villages to make a comparation

[Goldi:AI]

Originally posted by William Bonney:

As for GoldiRie, I agree with your sentiments. I like those pictures a lot more. A bit more spread and not all bulked up so you can move around. Looks great in my opinion.

The circle village was really interesting to build. (I call it amoeba for a reason. The first attempts were anything but circle shaped.) I still like it a lot, but, yes, like I sad and like you probably think as well, for playing it's just not quite right. It was built more quickly, too. So, that probably plays into it.

My old home (the last village in the video) just grew organically over many years. Even though it is in the mountains and even with a free cam, it would be hard to take a screenshot with all of it on it. Landscaping between updates ruined some plans, made it necessary to rebuild. I have a burried barn and house in that village. That's impossible to build by yourself, but it makes it even more "mine". My geese were burried as well and that happened during a time when I had hardware problems and could not play. So a friend jumped in and saved my geese before the update went from beta to regular. :)

I think that's the best way to go. Maybe plan a little, but grow slowly and adjust when needed. But, in the end, everybody has their own way. I don't believe there is a perfect way to build for all of us. Just one that's perfect for you.

PS: I would like to see Rose's villages, too. :D